Abstract

SANTOS, Josenaide Engracia dos; LINO, Débora Cristiane da Silva Flores; VASCONCELLOS, Erika Antunes  and  SOUZA, Rozemere Cardoso de. Teaching training processes in mental health for nursing and medical degrees. Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental [online]. 2016, n.spe4, pp.85-92. ISSN 1647-2160.  https://doi.org/10.19131/rpesm.0146.

BACKGROUND: This study emerged from concerns over teaching practices in mental health education within the psychiatric reform framework. We investigate the vision of nursing and medicine professors in public universities on mental health, since these are important professions in what psychosocial care is concerned. We aim to enrich the debate about engaged education in the production of useful practices in the context of mental health as well as stronger critical perspectives over the practices developed in the courses. OBJECTIVE: To understand the mental health teaching training processes in the undergraduate Nursing and Medicine courses of public higher education institutions in the state of Bahia, Brazil. METHODS: Qualitative research performed with nine nursing and medicine professors from five public universities from the state of Bahia in Brazil. Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews between March and July 2008, and analysed through the discourse of the collective subject, followed by theme analysis. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Some main ideas were outlined from the contents and are represented by the following topics: perceptions about psychiatric reform; evolution of prejudices; activity-based education; problem-based methodology as an axis in mental health education; interdisciplinarity as a teaching strategy and inter-relationship tool. The discourses produced pinpoint that the education of nurses and medical practitioners in mental health demands investment and deep knowledge of the psychiatric reform. The connection of different types of knowledge and the fusion of teaching, research, extended learning and services are paramount to its efficiency.

Keywords : Higher education; Mental health; Nursing faculty; Medical faculty.

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